skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The certificates will have value as long as they remain evidence of honest completion of the course. To say they are worthless is kind of short-sighted. Considering the number of tech resumes in the typical hiring manager's inbox that contain a laundry-list of programming languages in the skills section and not even a single project or course to prove the knowledge of the candidate, I'd say there is a fairly large domain for these certificates.

Given two resumes, one with a big bullet list of unverified skills, and one with a bullet list of some completed coursera courses, which would you choose?

Obviously coursera will not be replacing real college any time soon, but it can definitely serve a role in verifying at least cursory knowledge of basic skills.
That is correct. Car dealers are much like real estate brokers - politically savvy and entrenched.
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It would be cool if we could upload our private Git repo on Github once the course is finished. But I guess they might want to re-use the assignments next year...
While there isn't anything special marking the edge of space, the generally accepted definition is 100km https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_of_space
You know, maybe it was optimized for the guy presenting it? :P
It can be a rather unpleasant experience, plus it makes me feel bad to immediately hate the person before I get to know his/her style of selling. I know it's unfair but when that salesperson walks up I'm immediately "just go away and leave me alone".

Plus the sad fact is that the salesperson is the middleman of the manager, who is the middleman of the financier, who is the middleman of the dealership. There are probably more steps I'm forgetting.

Why can't cars be sold just like any other product? What makes them so special that government has to be involved, other than protecting monopolistic practices? I may never purchase a Tesla but I would argue against anyone that would want to stop this type of car sales.
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I've stopped clicking on Techcrunch links here on my iPad 1. If I do click through I get a page load, then a half page repaint, then the browser going white, then a page load, another half page repaint and then a browser crash. Maybe it is a feature?
It's definitely NOT Google's servers hacked, since at least one other domain (yahoo.ie) was affected.
The most likely outcome, unfortunately, is that Tesla is forced to sell through dealers like everyone else. I hope I'm wrong.
This is just plain FUD with no backing in reality.

Let me make it as clear as possible. Fusion energy is fundamentally safer and cleaner than fission energy, period. Firstly, it is simply not physically possible for fusion energy to generate even a tenth as much of the radioactive waste as an equivalent fission power plant. Secondly, it is not possible to have a dangerous power excursion at a fusion plant. When a fusion plant malfunctions it doesn't experience a runaway reaction, it stops working. If a fusion plant experiences some sort of catastrophic structural failure everything stops. This is in stark contrast to fission reactors which can undergo continued fission chain-reactions even if, and perhaps especially if, the reactor vessel is disrupted and the fuel melts down and also produce fission byproduct isotopes which continue to generate enough heat after the fission reactions have stopped to melt the reactor core if it is not continuously cooled.

Also, there is little evidence that the construction of a fusion reactor would entail a higher energy-usage footprint than a fission reactor, and the lack of a need for massive reinforced concrete structures in a fusion reactor tends to argue that the footprint would be rather less.

Let's roll it forward back to: undoubtedly cleaner if it can be made to work.
Actually, we do. If you look closely you'll often see a line item on the final invoice for something like "advertising" or "promotion". Yup --- they make you pay for the advertising.

I learned this years ago from a site that walked through car purchase negotiation techniques. Sorry, I don't remember which site.
So what was the upshot? Both sites were just knocked offline for an hour?
>I'm not sure if I've gone crazy, or everyone else has.

Welcome to Old.
Well done, PopSurvey. Had never heard of you, but now you're top of my list. That folks is how you market.
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Today I found out that USA (arguably the most libertarian country on earth, as far as business is concerned) has strict laws governing the sale of vehicles, said laws actually preventing companies from selling vehicles. I find that quite amazing.
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That's because it doesn't do that search on Google's servers. It only grabs the Google map tiles and renders them...
A lot of solutions end up looking similar, as the automated marking system requires certain method names and the questions often have answers that are only a line or two at this early stage of the class.

Early questions are things like: if membership of a set is a function mapping between an integer and a boolean, how would you define the membership of a singleton set? Modulo the spaces and variable names, every student's answer was probably the same!

So detecting who has copied their solution is probably difficult.
> Why can't cars be sold just like any other product?

Because then they run the risk of getting Amazon'd or Wal-Mart'd.
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Author here! I had fun building this, and Sincerely and Stripe are both nice to work with. I'd be more than happy to answer any questions.

It's written in node.js using expressjs, backed by mongodb, styled with bootstrap and reverse-proxied behind nginx on EC2. My aim was to prove whether this is a nice stack to work with for rapid prototyping - and it worked very well.
Oh, man. Curiosity just missed a screw.
This is worse than useless.
Some of the things Pingdom tested to determine "speed":
SSL - but are there dedicated secure servers?
DNS - serious WTF in terms of comparing hosting since DNS can be a 3rd party service not to mention the client's DNS.
Images - is a CDN being used?

The config of the httpd has an impact as well. I don't see that documented, but perhaps I over looked it.

Freshly deployed servers tend to be faster at first while the switch ports fill up.
What does the copyright of the code and legality have to do with the issue being discussed?
i imagine they weren't. the people submitting copies, however...
Radio Shack made themselves obsolete. I don't think Best Buy is obsolete, but merely needs a restructuring.

Radio Shack used to be great when you were working on a project and just needed one more part; a capacitor, a motor/servo, a PIC, etc. I don't need another phone reseller, I don't need useless RC cars, I don't need odd TV remotes. I need an electronics store that sells electronic parts.

Best Buy is great for researching your purchases. I can read reviews of a laptop online, but I can't feel it, feel the build quality or the keyboard, I can't test the viewing angle. I can read reviews of TVs, but I can't see the picture quality, I can't hear the speakers. I can't ask questions and get answer immediately. Best Buy is great for this.

I don't mind paying a higher price if it means I get what I need as soon as I need it. These stores should, IMO, focus on things that a customer would not trust an online purchase for, and focus on adding value to these immediate purchases. Radio Shack for parts, Best Buy for consumer purchases, each with value added by knowledgeable salesmen.
I think it comes from thinking about "what do I want" problem the wrong way. "What do I want" isn't "What would I like the world to be like for me" it's "what would I like to use in the world as it actually exists"

My hypothesis is that apps that aren't about sharing what you're DOING but rather what you'd like to do, especially in the short term, will ultimately be more useful. I don't want people to know what I'm doing or where I am, but I might like them to know where I'd like to be, with them, later tonight.
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There is no competition to be had. The dealerships aren't scared of competition from Tesla, especially since the price of a Tesla Model S is out of range for the majority of car buyers. What they are scared of is that Tesla sets a precedence for other manufacturers to follow suit which would then put a lot of people out of work.
This whole article does feel like it was written in 2008, like the report it refers to. Many of the conservative boring corporations that used to have many underutilized servers in their data centers have been actively moving towards virtualization and cloud like solutions since then.
>Meme

I dont think that word means what you think it means, and I think you should google it.
So, I run a startup where we've previously faced a similar problem w/ workflow management. To combat this, we use Google Docs and collaborate on a Goals Doc. It allows us to write notes next to various tasks. And, we'll also write the results of a given activity, as well, on the doc. Lastly, I like how Google Docs is invite-only, since I only want my team to view/edit the goals.

To answer your qs, given the above, Docs works out better for my team. As for my personal to-do list, I just keep one within the tasks list on Gmail.
If this is an investor pitch, it's missing one critical piece of info - namely, how will it make money? Or am I just old-fashioned in thinking a business should make money?
MyBook Essentials (pictured) use the same Caviar Green internal hard drive, with the same warranty, which is still priced $10 more on amazon.
I am a customer of theirs both of their backup service and their plans for machines. The backup service has never let me down and at work we've built two of their machines using their plans saving over 10K.

The machine plans are on their site and they explain why they chose off the shelf components. My only regret is that no one on our team has welding skills, so we couldn't make awesome face plates. lol

Backblaze is one of the more transparent companies operating in the space, which increased the trust level.
Semantics. We also pay for their air conditioning, tools, coffee, uniforms, etc. if you want to use that logic. It's just broken out for some reason.
If there's any industry begging to be "disrupted," it's the automotive industry.
The real issue is the lack of testing on the triple-redundant backup power systems. Utilization is meaningless on a server that isn't turned on.
That's true, but doing so is a breach of the code of conduct you agreed to when signing up for the course.

So, whilst you cannot be prevented from posting it somewhere public, you can (theoretically) be thrown off the course for doing so.
Still no Native code options? No thank you...

Javascript is great for many applications, but multimedia and games are not in this case.

Moreover, I don't see what Firefox OS brings that Android cannot do...
I'm going ape over this! <bad pun>
To make the comparison fair, you would have to have your engine idling the rest of the time. As part of a group of 1000 cars.
True story (mine): I knew a car dealer that made it very clear to me that if I buy the new car from him (and leave the old one there for a lower price) he'll give me significant discount. I said to myself "can't hurt to try" and went this route. The next day after owning the car (which I still own) the new owner of my old car called to ask what's the realistic condition. Turns out the dealer sold him the car for about $1500 more than I got from him, so I can only imagine he made the same thing with my new car, earning him $3000 for less than two hours of papirology.

I don't mind people making money, but for $10 - %15k cars it's an absolute steal.
Sure, but if it's against school policy, the school has the right to expel you. Coursera is not taking the public code down, the owner is, at the coercion of the school. The student is making a value decision: continue the course or take my code down. If you can't play by the rules, you can't be in the game.

I think there's a unique opportunity for GitHub here. They could give an educational license to verified students in college/high-school/on-line schools. For the duration of their class, they can have as many private repos as they like. When the semester ends, you've got a week to grab your code before it goes public, like a free account. First, it would get students used to GitHub and they would clammer for it in the workplace because they love it so much; Second, it would position GH as a great supporter of education.
Thanks ! I've been searching a long time for a fix for this. I switched linum-format to " %d " and this is clearly better.
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Hosting companies are in the business of selling servers.
In my experience most customers dedicated servers are hugely underutilised but they only get
the higher level of support or service if they take out dedicated tin.
This is one of those cases where the rights and interests of patent holders need to be balanced with the rights and interests of the public at large. Biotech crops are probably key to our survival and prosperity as a species on this planet and if anyone can simply grow some seeds and sell them, that will reduce/destroy the monetary incentive for creating new varieties of plants. (In some cases this does not matter, like corn and apples, because these plants do not breed true. But this is apparently not true of soybeans.) That incentive is what the patent system is ideally supposed to protect.

That said, Monsanto's ability/propensity to sue any farmer who breathes in a bit of their genetically modified plant material needs to be curtailed.
The first time I read one of these comments by you on reddit[1] I thought it was sincere - replies to it suggested I was not alone, although I was surprised that one was on your side.

So, I guess your sarcasm was a bit too subtle. This one is better :)

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/10zsz4/i_wrote_...
I wonder how many exact and similar copies there are. I can certainly imagine some honest overlap in the assignments (I'm taking the course).
Not to mention that there are some states that just prohibit the sales of vehicles on Sunday. That is what I find amazing. I can't imagine being told that one day a week I'm not allowed to sell my product.
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In the parent case he's talking about 'academic' families, instead of biological families (academic meaning that the 'parent' is the academic advisor of the 'child'). Of course, having several members of the same family all receive Nobel prizes is quite exceptional (and I believe unique to the Curie family).
Searching Github for assignments is pretty easy, but I wonder how they'd be able to detect duplicates other then when every source is 100% equal to another student's.
I can't wait to read a sci-fi story about advanced and perhaps sentient slime molds taking over the universe.
A few months ago I wanted to buy 1000 Microsoft Lifecam Cinema HD webcams.

I'll bite. Why? :)
Ooo - Interesting.

I was about to say that points the finger at the IEDR, but.. "eMarkmonitor Inc" are involved with them too..

# whois yahoo.ie

...

person: eMarkmonitor Inc

...

That basically means eMarkmonitor or the IEDR were hacked/had passwords stolen.
Can they really be said to be 'memories' then?

I doubt that most people would consider Hansel and Gretel's trail of breadcrumbs a form of 'external memory.'
I'm regularly getting a headache when using PHP again. But it is the language I started with. Maybe you should use RoR to broaden your horizon.
And it's within their rights to expel you from the course.
So adding notes to tasks and some privacy would make this more valuable for you?

If I did that would you start using it? What else would you need to use it?
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Did you apply directly or through an agency?
What they are scared of is that Tesla sets a precedence for other manufacturers to follow suit which would then put a lot of people out of work.

Good. There's no reason it should receive protection by the government in the first place. It's bad for the consumer.
Certificates and other records from this and Robert Sedgewick's algorithms course (maybe others) can be shared with employers through Coursera's placement service. Not entirely meaningless.
What you say is true, but I think it supports my statement. It's the dealerships themselves that have to compete with the business model, not necessarily the automakers. The dealers have to show to the automakers that their method is better or they fail.
Monsanto's business practices are the perfect example of what is wrong with the patent system/big corporate interests taking precedence. They've successfully sued people for cross pollination; engineered seeds who do not produce children; used their standing to get those seeds in just about every market; and they want, and will probably get, their way when it comes to labeling of foods grown with the genetically modified seeds. You brought up Obama's stance on this, but I honestly haven't heard any presidential candidate; third, fourth, or fifth party; talk about changing this nonsense.
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Say for example there are five Chevy dealerships in the greater Omaha area. If General Motors were allowed to own one itself it could give itself discounts internally such that it could undersell the other dealers and put them out of business. Once the competition was gone it could then raise prices harming consumers. Competition is good for consumers and the laws in question are aimed at protecting consumers.

Yes I know they are also competing with other brands, but some people are brand loyal enough that they would not switch to Ford or Chrysler.
>Things like ==, numbers as strings, eval, incorrect definitions of false, semicolon insertion, and -- heaven help us all -- improper lexical scoping.

==, numbers as strings => Problem: Type Coercion
eval => Problem: Interpreted Language
incorrect definitions of false => Problem: Type Coercion
semicolon insertion => Problem: Language
improper lexical scoping => Problem: Not block scope?

>The class bit particularly made me sad: JavaScript has a perfectly cromulent, even elegant, object model in the form of prototypes.

Both forms of object creation are valid.

[Object.create] http://jsfiddle.net/X4Bxq/

[new] http://jsfiddle.net/UGTga/

Both take advantage of prototypes (the later takes full advantage today, with all browsers. The former requires a hack where you lose your type information).

What is more important is that they are both awkward. So much so that most "JavaScript" programmers don't even use them. Those that do, spend most of their time arguing on which one is more correct. This is a problem. Introducing 'class' would sort this out by providing an easier syntax for class creation and an end to the arguments.
The rocket system worked as designed in that it recovered from a failure. The mission was a partial success (or partial failure, depending on one's outlook). No need to dramatize it.
This is normal. The dealer makes very little from a new car. They have to recoup that from trade-ins and selling used cars, which have a higher margin. New cars don't offer a lot of wiggle room because the invoice price for them is set, and they already sell them for little profit.
> > How is that helping anyone but the dealerships?
> It's not.

That was my initial though as well, but I came up with at least one case where survival of the dealerships is critical to an open market place.

If all stores were owned by car manufacturers, that would be a significant barrier to entry of new automakers. Not only do new entrants have to build a car company, but now they have to create a new distribution network as well at the same time.

That said, Tesla is a new car company and creating a new distribution network for them does not seem that big an issue.
Why is that a risk? What's wrong with ordering a car from Amazon?

Or do you mean it's a risk from the dealers' perspective? Because I get that and personally don't care.
Great question. It's "free forever if you sign up now"

This project started out as fun, but after some feedback that "backup can't be free", I've planned out pricing to sustain the service long-term.

If you sign up before the switch, the service will continue to be free and unlimited forever because I appreciate your support. At some point in the future, the service will be priced at $0.07/GB/mo; 20% less expensive than raw S3 storage and 75% less expensive than tarsnap.

This pricing will pay for all expenses and allow the service to grow and pay for maintenance.
I think it's kind of like how people say having a good product is the best marketing.

Being a nice guy (or girl!) is the same idea made personal.
Most space hardware is made from very ordinary materials, for what it's worth. Lots of aluminum.
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I wonder how much work it is to monitor the students, it must be hard to tell if there's cheating, assuming the published solution is well written and tought. If they have to look at past submissions to detect sudden peaks in grades it's got to be a burden.
When the semester ends, you've got a week to grab your code before it goes public, like a free account.

I suspect this would catch on better if the repos were destroyed or stayed private. Professors reuse assignments year after year and wouldn't be too happy about public solutions to all their past assignments.
> The price of every vehicle is fully negotiable but the negotiating room is opaque. Key car features and options are bundled in arbitrary packages and priced in ways that make pricing even more opaque.

This is my ongoing remark on this topic: walking into a particular dealership is a mistake. You're making it hard for yourself to use your only negotiation asset - the option to go elsewhere. Figure out the features you need and contact multiple dealerships for a quote. This sets up a much more better game for you. But yeah, dealerships still suck.
You have to be cut from a particular bitter length of cloth to be jealous over only keeping your world record for 52 years.
FYI I'm the guy that replied to that, I was really interested to see how the OP of that post got around it.
I'm sorry, but I'm really not interested in yet ANOTHER todo app/website/whatever. Please come up with something innovating. Creating the millionth TODO app and calling it a 'startup' is just not going to work. We have enough of these things. There's no need for it, and it certainly shouldn't be called a business, because it simply isn't.

(the same goes for the thousands of project management apps, hour tracker apps, wannabe social networks, twitter sentiment tools, accounting apps, photo filter apps, a/b testing websites, etc.).
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